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Damn
I’m very fond of those Joe Johnson and Deron Williams teams
Brook Lopez is the best player in nets history
We aren’t a great franchise
Moved to Brooklyn to play second fiddle to the Knicks, bland branding, unserious ownership
At least I had the Knicks…. That’s half serious
You will get Jalen Green and you will enjoy it
Some fun teams and some really bad teams
First finals without color
Knicks had some all time bad teams
Linsanity too
Like some of those awful lakers teams but less funny
I would've waived Kevin Knox the second he opened his shirt on draft night
There are some New York sports players that are burned into my memory because of how much I dislike them
Zion as the rep?
I’m so glad the Knicks are one of the few teams not to rebrand for the worst
Yes after he’s traded and the prophecy is fulfilled
Such a bad draft pick
Zion kd and kyrie to the Knicks
Zion to the nets
Zion and New Orleans was an all time bad combo
Knicks are fine as is
We should have seen it coming
Yet
Better not go to minny and eat the grub there also
Fat ass Zion
Send Zion to Miami and watch him leave the nba before january
Honestly I’d take Zion in a heartbeat. When healthy he averages 27 ppg on elite efficiency. We don’t have New Orleans level food or bbl demons to trick him either
Zion is so infuriating because when he plays he's an all nba calibre player
But he has missed so many games
I love KAT but come playoff team we need an a second option that isn’t as shaky as him
We also need depth
We are giving Mitchell Robinson real playoff minutes
It’s a nasty cycle
Bench will never develop but they also aren’t played for a reason
Hart also needs to become a better three point shooter please
And run some half court offense
Hakeem please 
The gameplan is literally make Brunson Superman
Same
If that’s what it takes
So be it
If we lose this game it might be wraps
Agreed now that I think about it
After Celtics this team can make the Championship
If we win this series build Jalen Brunson a statue in front of the garden
I trust us vs Pacers
I don’t
Assuming all healthy
The pacers are using voodoo magic
Pacers aren’t like that the way Celtics are
They are such a deep team
So are the C’s
Knicks have won 1 home game so far. Why are we like this
Spurs at 14
Undefeated on the road
Hawks 13
Can’t win in the garden
MSG might be having a reverse effect
Can never be normal huh
Bulls 12
I’ve been thinking it for a while
Mavs jumped not nice
The team thrives off boos and hostility
They don't deserve it
They get too comfy at MSG
Fuck that organization
Houston picks 10
But the fans
Raptors take 9
The type of shots role players be making in the garden
Nets 8th
Bruh
DO IT SILVER
DAMN YOU SILVER
Pelicans 7th
Rig everything
Silver I will
Wizards 6th
The 76ers top 4
If the spurs are even top 2 end the lottery system
God no
Jazz 5th
I swear if they give Dallas Flagg
Rigged af
I SWEAR
wtf
HE BETTER NOT GO TO THE MAVS
Charlotte is out last hope
Spurs, Mavs, Sixers and Hornets
Man if the mavericks take Bailey or flagg
Please go to San Antonio
Please 6ixers
Looks like the top 4 is loaded
They deserve NOTHING
Hornets Sixers SA Mavs if there is justice
Either way the Spurs are chilling
Fuck the Spurs
I’m so sick of the spurs
Jazz at 5 is disgusting
Thats a horrible way to say San Antonio
Silver can’t keep rigging the draft for them
True lol
Sixers deshaun Watson the Mavs
David Robinson Duncan Kawhi Tony Parker wemby and Flagg
In like 25ish years
Would be crazy
Realistically I just hope he doesn't go to Dallas
Wemby and flagg sounds like a 2k team
Fuck that team
Making San Antonio relevant again was not what we needed
Castle as well
Oh right
And Giannis maybe 
Also Nico and the Mavs don’t deserve anything good
That is just bullshit if it happens
Wizards being 6th is digusting too
They got shafted
Least problematic scenario is Hornets getting #1
I gate the lottery man
Same with the jazz
I want that
Wizards and Jazz fans I feel for you
Not Dallas or San Antonio.
Anything but San Antonio for me
Maxey and Flagg would be a nice duo ngl
Giannis open to exploring other options
Silver would do that
With McCain coming back from his injury as well
It's joever
Dallas
FUCK
Mavericks
Most rigged draft since the Knicks got Ewing
Silver didn’t even try to hide it lmao
@restive vector FLAGG IS A MAVERICK
LOL
And Charlotte is 4
"here damn" draft lottery
Draft is rigged
Charity pick for the Mavericks
Get rid of the draft lottery system
I was here when the mavericks win
I feel so bad for charlotte fans
4th worst odds to win the lottery since 1985 😭
Nico Harrison wins
Trade Luka just to get another franchise superstar
Life isn't fair
That fuck doesn’t deserve anything
Absolutely rigged
I’m serious that the lottery system needs to go
It's indeed rigged
Adam Silver you're a bald cuck
Spurs getting Harper is unfair tho
What if they trade up
I doubt the Mavs would do it
No chance
what
Yes
Rigged
NBA is actually ass
Idk Harper is the better prospect but the spurs do have a lot of guards
Lottery system is so awful
We simply must remove Texas
Gotcha
So good chance they take Bailey
Agreed
Spare Houston
wizards forever in the dumpster
Remove Texas delete it from existence
😭
In the mud
Why
Jazz too lmfao
LMAO SPORTS ARE RIGGED
Wizards fans get Jordan Poole and coulibaly
AHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH
lottery just ain't it
Celtics Knicks ready to happen
This shit is so silly
Fun city 
I'm happy we all agree this is rigged lmao
Silver needs to end the lottery system
Dallas is just insane
He didn’t try to hide it either
Dallas just got bailed out of the worst trade in sports history
What would you replace it with tho
Islanders win the lottery after the NY Governor wrote a complaint to the NHL
Mavericks win the lottery after they get public heat for the Luka trade
Spurs still get a top 2 draft prospect
Worst record gets it
Simply hilarious. Rigged ass lotteries
What the nfl uses. Draft by record
Nets fans (all 6 of them) are furious
That would get you teams playing plumbers to get the worst record possible
Hey I wouldn't hate it tbh
Hornets, Jazz, Wizards all stay in poverty
It's what the NFL does
Teams already shamelessly tank anyways
NBA poverty never dies !!
At least now Charlotte and Utah aren’t getting fucked so Dallas and San Antonio prosper
I'll just accept tanking
That's true tbh
Agreed
Just like real life
they can never have anything good
Where are the Nets picking?
EVER 😭
Just like Silver wouldn't let Wemby go to Detroit he didn't let Flagg go to Charlotte
8th
Once again a Texas team get everything they want
Thank you. What a disaster for them lol
8th 😐😐😐😐
It's actually so stupid. The system inherently opposes what it's supposed to stand for for this EXACT fucking reason
Indeed it is
Nah lottery picks are better
Gotcha
No this class is actually good unlike last year
I see
yea it really just depends on the draft class
Gotcha
It would be a top 1 funniest thing ever if Nico didn't even draft Flagg
I’m so sorry…
im so mad this BS
nah like it's actually such a backwards and outdated system
idek if outdated is the right word, moreso that it's ridiculous that it's persisted this long
Is this like 9/11 for Mormons?
lmfao
Jazz deserve to be in the dumpster until they give the name back to new orleans
^
Giannis for the entire Mavs roster except Kyrie and AD + the first pick who says no
Agreed
I thought Utah was famous for their jazz and musical culture
Utah "That ended in 1890"
I love that name and logo
I also liked the Phoenix Coyotes logo ngl
The thing is, this system innately discourages teams from rebuilding smartly because what's the fucking point. Poverty franchises stay poverty franchises, teams that need genuine help have a high chance of being screwed year after year, mediocre teams and management that don't give a fuck can end up being the winners of the whole thing. Such a dogshit system
Yeah sad about the Coyotes
I mean I get the current system, it technically discourages you from purposely tanking and it showed that play-in teams can get the first pick but yeah it's not working
Tanking is going to happen regardless
"discourages from purposefully tanking" isn't really needed imo and it's something that happens anyway
The thing about tanking is that players don’t play to lose
it's just common sense that teams that have no chance at a championship are going to want to increase their odds of improving for future seasons
The problem is that there is no alternative. Every sports league has an ironclad monopoly
One way to discourage from tanking is introducing relegation and promotion to lower leagues but that's not gonna happen
wait
20 mins from now right
WELCOME
Yeah, why would they lol
please everyone root for the blazers to get #1
…
Every league will have its flaws that lead to inequality for sure, but there's something about the lottery system in particular that drives me up the fucking wall man.
Who’s gonna tell him
We wanted that but they couldn't get the copyright so we settled for Mammoth
Yes
hate dallas
oh juba...
Coaches are probably paid to tho
I’m not sure Silver favors you guys for that
what the actual fuck is this
Honestly Mammoth is better than Yeti
i hate the spurs
It’s blatant
ridiculous
I hate the lottery so much
No one can ever convince me every Draft Lottery in sports is fucking rigged
Draft lottery is dumb
I’m a firm believer in the rig
If I'm a wizards fan, I'm legit hiding all sharp objects tonight
Silver needs to destroy it
And I’m not a sport’s conspiracy guy
Any fan of a nba poverty team, just quit
They rigged for the Knicks to get Ewing they rigged it for the Cavs to get LeBron and now they rigged it to bail out Nico Harrison
It’s not worth it
A team 1 win away from the playoffs won the lottery
Nico Harrison getting bailed out the worst trade in sports history
It’s so over
i hate the spurs so much
So blatant
Rigged it for Wemby, for D Rose, for Kyrie
For Zion
And the list goes on
All my hornet fan friends are spam texting me rn lol
You got to tell them it’s not worth it
I respect Hornet fans
I'm pretty sure the hornets haven't had the actual first overall pick since the fucking 90s or something lol
They haven't had one good moment in their entire history
Larry Johnson probably?
Silver and the league made the call
I still haven't seen solid evidence they exist
they do
there's a passionate sect of them in the charlotte area
but all they have is copium
League genuinely hates them
You got to tell them to quit supporting the team
It’s not worth it
I don't think they have it in them to switch teams
SUCK IT!!!!! GO SPURS GO!!!!
I have a question tho, why San Antonio of all places?
Why does the league love them so much
TRADE THE PICK, DEVIN VASSELL, AND DRAFT CAPITAL FOR GIANNIS!!!
Historic team, well run, big market
Because it's an old franchise with a good history
Give us Castle and you have a deal
Smh this is the greed they spoke of in the Bible
Nahhhh
Giannis will definitely want to go from an area with a few Greeks to an area with no Greeks
100%
How about cp3 and a first round, maybe a 2nd
Giannis to the Jazz hype
they just want wemby to succeed to continue growing globally
From a rigged stand point, yes
Castle, Vassel and a mere package of 8 first round picks
But I choose to believe we just keep winning
Giannis wants to leave, he can't do anything with the bucks currently
Silver is going to be banished to eternal damnation when his life fades away
So they are going to take what they can get
SA and Philly picking after Dallas?
I hate this shit
SA is getting spoiled beyond belief
Cooper flagg isn't worth the loss of doncic*
So rigged man
Silver told him to trade Luka to the lakers for the first overall pick
Too obvious silver
Try harder next time
He could stick around and do what Dirk did
No excitement or surprise
(he won't)
Is his life gonna fade away by your hands
Yeah, he's probably going to leave either this off-season or after his contract ends
Wemby and giannis*
Riches get richer
Possibly
They got fox for a bag of skittles and a singular AirPod too
Trade the pick, a few players, and draft capital for giannis
I do miss tre Jones tho
And castle is going to bud into an amazing guard
What about a straight Giannis/Wemby trade
Nope
I'd do it :)
Hell no
Silver gonna send giannis to the spurs for cp3 and a second rounder
Like, that's worse than Luka AD
I’ll help
Nahhhh, we got a pistons fan
They'll pay billions to doctors to find an immediate cure to blood clots so that Wemby can be back up playing in October
Spurs went too long without a Duncan successor it was over from the jump
He's playing this summer in france
"The NBA Draft Lottery can't be rigged because Ernst and Young ensure it's legit". Okay then. Let's ask 2001 Enron and 2002 Worldcom shareholders how that worked with Arthur Andersen reviewing those companies' financials.
They throw you off once in a while to say it isn’t rigged
spurs fans playing dolls
Lol
not even watching a sport
Same vibes as "they wouldn't do it, it's illegal!!"
Where is my Ben Wallace replacement 
When there aren't any hyped players they don't rig it at all
Look at last year
No one cared the hawks got the first pick
Team one win away from the playoff with a <2% chance to win wins
Jalen Duren
Shouldn’t be allowed
Exactly
He ain’t got no lateral movement 😭😭😭😭😭
Giannis eating his "souvyallki" after the Bucks block moves to any culturally relevant city
I still see Jalen duren grabbing offensive rebounds in my sleep
Lol, y'all jumped 30 wins this season
"I'm hitting him with lateral movement"
Complaining about that?
Shoulda been coty
OH MY GOD MAVS ARE BACK
IWAS PRAYING TO FIND A GIF FOR THIS😭😭😭😭
Johto I love you for that😂
Brunson cooking
And no one but Mavs fans is happy
I mean the fans deserved it
The organization? Fuck no
When I find Nico Harrison
Let’s go Brunson
Hico Narrison will trade him in 7 years
Save us GOAT
i got my joy back i can’t wait next season
I hope dart is a superstar
Actually looking scary for next season
I still hope they don't draft Flagg
He probably will trade flagg and go offense wins championships
Especially once Kyrie gets back
I bet someone would actually hire a hitman
So many accusations on sportscenter comments of the NBA being rigged lmao
The lottery? 100% lol
And then he's gonna be gone in the offseason
The lottery is ran by the state Texas
klay pj and number 1 pick for giannis? 👀
A front court of ad gafford lively and flagg isn't even fair
yeah
Are the rumors about the Mavs moving cities true?
acl
Acl
If we turn on trade override for you 😭
Thank you
I have lost all touch with the NBA
Bruh they HATE their fans

Not Houston tho
They don’t care about us
God wants a Stanley Cup in Utah way more than an NBA Championship.
#TusksUp
The curse of Dillon Brooks
😂😂
But that came after, so it really is F Houston the nba said😭
Knicks lead
Probably not after the Luka trade
11-0 Knicks run
Move the Mavs to Tuktoyaktuk
2026 or 2027 for Arch
There is a pretty big reason for Luka getting traded
If we can get Giannis on a good deal, all is forgiven
And it has to deal with the org and moving cities
Yeah Nico Harrison is a hack
The reason is the Mavs owner is a cheap ass who doesn't want to pay Luka the supermax
And they pointed a gun at Nico Harrison's head telling him to trade Luka and get all the blame
Oh God Doris burke
Hey, y'all be mad. We got the #2 and #14 picks. I'm up rn
The Celtics glazer
Yeah Spurs are chilling
I would say I hope they are busts, but we all know that doesn’t happen in San Antonio
Joshua primo says hi
I can't believe the worst and 2nd worst teams in the NBA got the 5th and 6th pick lmfao
3peat roty?
Legit trolled
Even Bron knows it's rigged
I literally just need the Knicks to win this series. Idc what happens after that for the rest of the playoffs
If the Knicks win the series the Celtics will play the ECF anyway because NYC would be wiped out of the map by the hands of New Yorkers
oh shit did they do the lottery today
Yep
“Lottery” yea
LOL
Wizards fans are livid
The fact they don't even show the process of the lottery makes it feel even more rigged
They do on YouTube
I love how I know minimal about basketball and know that was fucked lol
"Trust us guys 😁"
As they should
Do they put magnets in it who the fuck knows
I remember when they found that the champions league draws were rigged
They did it by making the balls different temperatures
They could still show us and rig it anyway but they won't do it
LOL
Remember when they drew Atletico twice like 4 years ago

idk if that was rigged or if that was a genuine mistake
sheesh they got it with a 1.8% chance
Small market teams are basically destined to remain poverty
What's the point of sucking ass just to draft fifth and sixth
Trade it to the spurs for a bag of chips
It's just fuck you
cant wait to see what my pels get at 7 LOL
Here get 14% fucking odds at the number 1 overall pick
You can go 0-82 and end up with the fifth overall pick
Absolute joke
At that point just sell the team
Pretty much
Do you see Zion staying?
I cannot defend this
Fuck Nico harrison
Zion goes to spurs for a used toothpick and a 3rd round via the fucking bullets or something
I dont think so
Unless you’re the Spurs or your franchise just lost a superstar
Spurs 👀?
W MAVS
That cajun food was too gas for big zion
Always
Cam Payne lol
Got to make sure he doesn’t get his hands on any churros tho
Wait, what are you?
Could be the wizards who traded their best player to the suns only to suck ass and get the sixth overall pick
Nah, he's going to be unstoppable, the sheer mass of him
Them big ol Zions down in San Antonio
Like I meant what team are you?
The next Charles Barkley
gotta get zion of the Shrimp boil
Oh they are a rockets fan
Raptors and warriors
Hey, at least y'all got butler now
And y'all had kawhi after us, so you got some rings in the past few years
Going to be interesting to see what Scottie Ingram quickly and RJ can do
I haven't even been in the playoffs since 2018
Weird ass core but should be decent
Special line up right there
Spurs for sure into the playoffs with a healthy wemby for two decades to come
Fucking Dallas man
Yep. Probably a few chips too
Lol, just heard?
Yeah plus poeltl. Just gotta hope the young guys hold up on the bench
Definitely
Raptors got number 9
Oh man giannis castle and wemby.
Bring back the twin towers in giannis and wemby
It feels empty. I'm not complaining- but I miss Luka man
Plus fox... It would be so nice
Oh right
Yeah I get that
Luka was one of a kind
Nothing is worth having that trade happen
Idk if I was a Mavs fan I would be jumping for joy ngl
Yeah, flagg isn't worth losing Luka. Honestly, idk how he is #1
Wizards 6th pick is fucking hilarious tho lmaooo
Tragic for them
If you look at his play, how is he this high of a pick?
Nah fuck them for tanking
Hey, tanking is necessary sometimes
Then everyone is going to tank all the time.
Jazz 5th for the tank job too
Yeah, but the draft combats that a little bit
The lottery is just stupid because of cases like this years lottery
Draft lottery*
“Lottery”
It doesn’t really do it well enough to justify its existence
We still saw a lot of shameless tank jobs
Hey, it's rigged until your team gets 1st
In years where you have elite prospects you’re gonna get ranking no matter the system
Nico Harrison
And the opposite when there are years where there aren’t elite prospects
The fact that a borderline playoff team is picking 1 is dumb
Wait, who is the next elite prospect? After flagg?
Ace Bailey
Is it that Canadian 7'9" guy?
Hell no lol
This year?
Nah, like future years
AJ Dybantsa for 2026
Yeah, I thought he was too injury prone
the 7'9 guy that went to IMG?
He’s also just kinda not even close to nba ready. The Florida kid right?
Yeah
Yeah hes at florida
Yeah he’s gonna need all 4 years
Yeah, I've seen a lot about him, but didn't really like how he played. He seems really clumsy
You also got the Boozer twins
Yeah, that's who I was thinking of
They are looking good
Cameron looks nasty
The Mavericks won the 2025 NBA Draft lottery with the ping pong ball combination of 10-14-11-7.
- The Blazers would have won if the last ball had been 6.
- The Wizards would have won if the last ball had been 1.
@proud coyote
Yea I rate Cam highly
Are they this draft? Or next?
Don't rub it in
I mean this jokingly ofc lol
I know that's not what you're doing
Lol, jxmyhighroller is going to be rolling in his sleep
Next
Thanks
Aren't you a Knicks fan Balkan
Yeah
Nah, but we have a real chance to 3peat roty now
AHHHHH
The don't rub it in was in reference to juba
Imagine if Mavs skip Cooper Flagg?
I just realized yeah, my bad lol
I wanna see the Knicks do good solely to see the chaos in NY
Like they just go for Dylan Harper
Could be a hornets fan…
And we get flagg 👀????
Blazers get Zion
There are so many poverty stricken NBA teams
To have two big men with problems
You get to experience the dominayton every night and you have the audacity to complain smh
Y'all got MJ for a few years, and Tony Parker. And lamelo, who is arguably the most entertaining player to watch behind wemby
huh
Mj was the wizards
It's mostly wizards to feel bad for
lol
Tony Parker was washed af
average spurs fan
Fuck, yeah, MJ owns the team. Mb
He's not even close to that respectfully
He sucked as an owner
Owned*
When did he sell it?
And yes he was terrible
Lamelo is fun but hes way too injury prone
Yea couple years ago I believe
Brandon Miller might be the more interesting player
The funniest thing about Lamelo is his complete absence of media training
2023, yeah
Hopefully the hornets can get someone good with the fourth overall pick
They need some hope
Woah, he might swerve and bend the corner, but he isn't too bad
Fun basketball, but nothing to show for it…basically a circus act
If you like explosive athleticism then yea for sure
He isn't bad at all yeah
The best player the Hornets ever had is Kemba Walker
Idk much about the hornets tbf
They drafted CP3
Close enough, welcome back Harlem Globetrotters
Yeah they did
When they were in new Orleans
Actually so sad that this is the case and I don't mean shade to Kemba
Arguably CP3 was better
Doesn't that count as the New Orleans Pelicans
New Orleans hornets are not the same franchise as the current Charlotte Hornets
No, pelicans came after
Same, he was a great player
Pelicans are what the new orleans hornets were
Charlotte hornets were the bobcats for a bit
Yeah but I mean, he played for that team, not the current hornets
One of the better players to have come from Charlotte
Did they draft Glen Rice?
they didn't draft him
Drafted by the heat
Pretty sure Rice was only with the hornets for like 4 or 5 years
Oh yeah true
Yeah it was four years
Nah, it was the same franchise, kinda. Was moved from Charlotte to New Orleans, the bobcats replacing them in Charlotte. Then Katrina hit, moving them to Oklahoma City. After that, it gets weird, and named changed.
I think your history is a little off dude lol
I remember those OKC seasons tho yea
that was weird
For the Lakers
Knicks just can't quite climb their way back into this game
Going on nice runs but then Boston keep reclaiming their lead
🤢
There's new news?
I did
pretty much the story of the half
Mavs won the lotto
celtics with some good shooting
Maybe the franchise isn't doomed afterall
LOL washington
I would rather have Luka than a #1 pick
sixth in the lottery losing 0-2 to the canes
That's my feelings on this
idk man, assuming AD can still have a few more productive seasons... Flagg and AD sounds kinda nasty
Atleast they have the commanders
commanders only saving grace\
It does, true. Time heals all wounds..
Imagine saying this a few years ago.
Wizards still remind me that they're the NBA team I forget the most exists.
There just can't be a world where the 17-65 jazz and 18-64 wizards fall to 5 and 6 while the play-in Mavericks and 34-48 spurs get 1 and 2 LOL
like that just can't be allowed 😭
The lottery is always meant to fix outcomes. Because getting the 1st overall pick doesn't always get you the best player available. A lotto is pointless.
To my understanding
Isn't the NBA lottery notoriously awful outside of the first 3?
Like worse than the NHL?
In terms of value
Like that doesn't make sense because Giannis got chosen at, what....11?
I'd say sometimes 4 sometimes 5-6
Very dependent on the draft class
But I keep hearing it's a shift draft
Exactly
I think it's more just the principle of having the first pick. Like what the draft class ends up looking like after that is what it is, but teams still want to have the freedom to fail lol if that makes sense. Jokic was a second round pick, Brady was 6th round etc...
To be frank, most the rules for getting into the NBA draft have been criticized. It's not like the NFL draft where you have to be 3 years out of high school to play. A lot of these top prospects are like 19-20 still learning their craft. So you don't get the difference makers right off the bat most times in the NBA
The top 3 aren’t guaranteed to be the best out the class, depending on the draft class too you could get a top prospect to fall on your lap at 11 like Giannis did
lower lottery (10-14) is pretty much a wash most drafts
(Why they should get rid of one and done entirely!)
facts
I always been on the side of make it that you play out of high school or play 2-3 years in college. Of course, there's also the G League.
g league ignite was a flop
yes-not arguing this in the sense of the draft lottery itself, just the actual draft
Jalen Green came from g league ignite…
like valuation wise is the nba the worst outside of those top 5?
one of the few good players to do so
(typically)
That happens pretty frequently yea
I do feel bad for a lot of these young NBA players getting drafted in the top 4. Because not every 19-20 year old is capable of handling money and the pressure of being the guy for a team.
matas is looking good
It took Markelle Fultz being traded to Orlando to be decent.
i forgot that it was due to NIL and transfers going crazy that they shut down
I might just be talking out my ass with this but I think it feels this way with basketball because it's is such a star-powered sport and league nowadays. Take football on the other hand, and you have entire rounds of drafting quality players to fill out your roster with. With basketball, teams are often just looking to pick the transcendent players of each draft class to transform their roster so it feels like only maybe 5 or so of each draft class feel like true difference makers in the end
marketing wise yeah but depth plays a big part also
guys like peyton pritchard and josh hart are pretty valuable
In a literal sense that's not the case ofc because you need deep teams with quality support players
yep
it is hard to win without a top end talent on your team though
We know depth guys are really important because that was the Brooklyn Nets and Lakers problems when they had potential "Superteams"
nba is weird cuz of how many minutes players can play\
wait does the nba not broadcast the balls being picked out? for the draft
nba rosters aren't much smaller than nhl ones but a nba team can win with just 7-8 solid and above players
nhl teams need 20-23
Lol I fuckig knew the Mavs would get the number 1 overall pick
The way I see it is you need your star players to better your chances of winning games, and you need depth guys because inevitably in a long season and in the playoffs, your star players will get hurt. For how long, you don't know.
The NBA lottery is so fucking rigged
definitely agreed
Yep, depth really shows its value in the playoffs
Nah I bet you can guess why 
I can only think of LeBron carrying the Cavs in 2018.
The East was really such a joke at that time.
it was
I thought it would’ve been too obvious
nope the nba did it
Lol Nico just taking all the blame for his bosses
east is still mid outside of the best four teams
Luka was an owners meeting trade to increase ratings
The NBA, the NHL do it. It's one of those things you know is rigged when they want it to be.
like the pelicans getting zion, cavs getting kyrie, bulls getting rose
Utah will be rewarded next season with the #1 pick
Utah: Do we get the 1st pick?
NBA: No. But you do get a name for your hockey team
pfft
Aj Dybantsa is the top prospect for next year and he’s playing in Utah for BYU this upcoming season
lets go knicks
Apparently, this happened before
https://x.com/BN_Bulls/status/1922069029625151983
The Chicago Bulls lost the coin flip to the Dallas Mavericks for the 11th spot in the lottery ... and they just moved up into the Top 4.
Derrick White is 6 for 8 from three
I'm just convinced the NBA went up to the Bulls and told them, "Your pick are the friends you met along the way."
lead down to 6
Adam silver pulling his own Kayfabe 🤣
I was ready to forgive him as well
For an entertaining playoffs
He took his sweet ass time helping the Magic. 
the biggest shaft job in history
Yeah. It just took a few years of coping that Mo Bamba wasn't a bad pick and the entire contract of Bismack Biyombo.

How tragic
Game is tied
Celtics winning this game
Brunson: Ha. Bucket goes BOOM!
Knicks take the lead
Knicks lead after three
what a shot by hart
THE KNICKS ARE TAKING A LEAD INTO THE 4TH QUARTER AT HOME WITH A CHANCE TO GO UP 3-1 IN THE SERIES
this is either gonna be amazing or hurt like hell
Basketball gods: 
we need another bridges classic
he's had some big shots today
Dang pj tucker is a Knick
Tatum having a game
knicks vs tatum
Full credit to @rodpedersen, who was only 10 hours ahead of everyone else - but Ken Holland will indeed become next general manager of #LAKings.
Think back to December convo with Holland free after 27 consecutive seasons as GM: "I'm not sure I enjoy a stress-free existence."
@dim kettle
Very few arenas in NA that match the atmosphere of The Garden
IS THAT NOT A DOUBLE DRIBBLE?
What a move by Tatum
blatant double drible lol
Scott Foster still allowed to refs games in 2025
Loster
Og lets go
Knicks pulling away
come on knicks
KNICKS OOH BABY
mikal clutch
Let's go Knicks
bridges
15 seconds · Clipped by That Shadow Siren · Original video "Johnny vs. Sonic Adventure" by SomecallmeJohnny
Bridges' mid-range been nasty
Always has been its the best part of his offense
og
Tatum down
oof
Series over
Yikes
Does not look good
I want to beat Celtics with Tatum on the floor
doesn't look good
Never want an opponent hurt
He’s a human too, plus you want to beat guys at their best
Damn he's actually out out
BRUNSON
Only 14 point lead blown this time, progress
An injury that happens with no contact from someone is never good
AGHHHH
what a shot
Didnt even shoot bad
Its over
They just had so much fewer shots lol
Knicks rebounding key
tatum left in a wheelchair
Not only is Tatum done for this year but maybe next season as well
dMn
Mets and Knicks win would be amazing
ggs
Think this series might be a wrap too yea
Well, looking like it’s time to drink out of the Knicks cup
I wanted to beat Celtics at their best and Tatum was crazy this game
Respect him a lot
Yeah of course but
I’d wish he was still on the floor
And for next game
And then we win the series
Fair
I am happy we’re going to the ECF
Finally
And we get a chance at revenge vs Pacers
For last years BS
Up to the Nuggets or Thunder or Wolves to save basketball
Knicks winning would be amazing for basketball
KNICKSTAAAAAAAAAAAAPE
NU FAWKIN YAWK
NU YAWKKKK
Only will when he gets a ring
@torn gale GET IN HERE
I wouldn't smile much if I had that hair
CHANGE THAT NAME
This season
YOU'RE FREE
lol fr